US-Japan: The official announcement of the agreement to build the interceptor may happen next week when the Japanese Prime Minister will go to America for the Camp David Summit.
According to reports, there was an agreement between the US and Japan in January to make this interceptor. For this, a meeting was held between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japan’s Foreign Minister and National Security Advisor NSA Jake Sullivan.
Countries around the world including India are working on hypersonic missile technology. However, so far only Russia’s hypersonic missiles have been tested in actual combat. Putin claims that his Kinjal hypersonic missile is the best in the world. While Ukraine claimed to have fired it with the Patriot missile defense system in May.
Regarding the Kinjal missile, Putin had said that it is so powerful that the Patriot will never be able to stop it. According to reports, ‘Kinjal’ moves 5 times faster than the speed of sound.
Its range is 1200 miles. At the same time, Patriot is considered the world’s most advanced missile defense system. The cost of one Patriot missile is 3 million dollars i.e. 24 crore rupees. So far, the capability of this system to destroy hypersonic missiles has not been publicly estimated.